Is anyone in the Church filled with the Holy Spirit?
Luke 1:35 -The angel answered, "The (God's)Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
Matt 3:11-"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one(Jesus) who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit (God's spirit)and with fire.
Luke 4:1 -[The Temptation of Jesus] [4:1-13pp -- Mt 4:1-11; Mk 1:12,13] Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit(the spirit of God), returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert,
Luke 3:22 -and the Holy Spirit (God's spirit) descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."
Luke 1:67 -[Zechariah's Song] His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit (God's spirit)and prophesied:
Luke 10:21-At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit(God's spirit), said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.
Luke 11:13 -If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit (God's spirit)to those who ask him!"
Mark 13:11-Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit(God's spirit).
Luke 12:12 -for the Holy Spirit (God's spirit)will teach you at that time what you should say."
John 20:22 -And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit( God's spirit).
Acts 2:4 -All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 2:38 -Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit(God's spirit).
Acts 4:31-After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit(God's spirit) and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 5:32 -We are witnesses of these things, and so is the (God's spirit)Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
Acts 7:51 -"You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit(GOD'S SPIRIT)!
Acts 8:16-because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 10:38-how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
1 Corinthians 12:3 -Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit(God's spirit).
2 Corinthians 13:14-May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Ephesians 1:13 -And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit(God's spirit),
Heb 3:- 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit (God's spirit) says:
“ Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘ They shall not enter My rest.’”
1 Peter 1:12 -It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
1 JOHN 1:4-Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
James4:4-Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
The Holy Spirit Is God's spirit! By His spirit he leads us, comforts us, warns us, reminds us, heals us by His life giving spirit through Jesus Christ.
As far as the miracles of God because of Jesus is all true if you would just listen to all the witnesses that testify these truths to you. People are being healed, delivered & set free everyday. It's all about who's spirit dwell in you- God's through Jesus- Or satan's spirit which is against God's spirit operating in this world!
If you really want the spirit of God than you will accept Jesus for who & what he is your redeemer, your only salvation, the light of the world.How can you understand the things of God without entering into the things of God by His spirit? You have not because you ask not and you have found nothing because you have not seeked it in the way God has told you. God gives knowledge to those who seek & love Him- not those that are full of pride-the very thing satan was kicked out of heaven for!
Yes God's Holy Spirit /power is in the church alive & well today accomplishing as God said His spirit would and inside all believers to enable us to do as we were called to do because we answered to God's call.God does a lot with/through people that are willing!
God bless you!
Hi LizzieBoo!
No I don't have this memorized. I just try not to leave too much out. LOL!
DoubleScorpion-What I am trying to say is before Jesus only those that were righteous as in not breaking any of the ten commandments of God were able to have His spirit- with out a sin offering/sacrifice.
So all those that have lied,stolen,committed adultery, murder and all the rest could not receive God's spirit because of there unrighteousness/sins.
Yes God gave a way around being bound to this through animal sacrifice, guilt /sin offerings.
But now we don't need to sacrifice animals to be forgiven and to keep His spirit- Jesus is the perfect sacrifice once &for all.
Some of most vile & worst of sinners can now receive God's Spirit now because of Jesus.
John 1:17 KJV
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Acts 13:39
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
So for everyone alive today that has committed so many sins against God Jesus is the way they are forgiven-He is there perfect sacrifice without spot or blemish.
Matt 3:11-"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one(Jesus) who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit (God's spirit)and with fire.
Yes you are right about people having God's spirit/Holy Spirit before Jesus. Everything I put above is for those today that want His spirit today.
We cannot go back to the days of Moses before Jesus and do it that way. Now we must repent/turn from our sins and let/trust that God's sacrifice Jesus for our sins & salvation are enough. Now we don't have to be perfect in by the law, we are under grace.
So if I ever tell a lie again Jesus covered it. Or if someone committed adultery now- they aren't to be killed but rebuked/corrected and they can be forgiven and live.
For the wages of sin is death- Jesus paid for the wages of sin for us. So now we being imperfect can receive His spirit/Holy Spirit without condemnation.
Jesus is our mediator between us & God because of what was done on the cross.
Yes you are right that back then that some had the spirit of God before the death & resurrection of Jesus- but for us now we have to have Jesus to have/get the Holy Spirit.
We are both right
There was a way before Jesus to have God's Holy Spirit & Now how we can have the Holy Spirit is through the acceptance of Jesus our sacrifice for sin.- If we sacrificed animals for our sins now it would not work. Our sins have be forgiven in order to have the Holy Spirit.
Great you have a PHD in bible studies- so you should be able to see and understand what I mean.
God Bless You!!
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I don't know if anyone else was full of the holy spirit, but I have seen Father O'Reilly with enough Bundaburg rum in him that it kept the congregation from smoking near him.
I have seen a few Irish Priests comming up through catholic School in that same manor! lolol
a little to much time sipping the "Blood of Christ!".... so to speak
Really? I did not know that
I must have missed that in Religion class, five times a week, 10 months of every year for 10 years in Catholic Schools.
You're new aren't you?Correction, Immanu El, never -ever ever, ever, ever- said you had to "accept HIM" to be "saved". That is false doctrine (and yes, I CAN prove that). He said to be born of water (obviously being human) and then born of spirit (the in dwelling of the Fathers power -the Spirit :: see Genesis 1).
Being IN the Father means united with, keeping true to his name [title/attribute: Creator IN or WITH us].
Do you truly understand WHAT the totality of Salvation Encompasses? And why?
James.and none of which you were trained to quote --were taught is the power of [God] when quoted (which it is not)-- do you understand.
Remember this: Just because you quote a book, does not mean you know its author...
Do you want to understand? If so, let's talk.
James.-
You're so sweet and Yes I know God and walk with Jesus filled with the Holy Spirit!
As Scripture says, 'Streams of living water will flow from deep within the person who believes in me (Jesus).'"> John 7:38
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God bless you! thank you heavenbound5511.
There is much for people to learn and much to be joyful in.
James.
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“Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
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19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified [1] through the truth.
John 17:20->>>----->> Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=John+17
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1 John 3:24 --Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the(Holy) Spirit he gave us.
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John 10:38-- But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
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Romans 8:9---> You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit)lives in you. And if anyone does not have the (Holy Spirit) Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
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In the belief and truth of the trinity there is the Father God, Jesus the Son of God and God's Holy Spirit /power for us to walk in His ways and do His will. It's all in the Bible just not the title (trinity) that refers to them all at the same time. The meaning of it lines up and agrees with the word of God.
Hmmm..... It's all in the details and meaning.
Yep I believe God, and I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and seek after God and His will, striving to be more and more obedient and I have received the promise of His precious Holy Spirit/power/ in me because of Jesus.
Satan loves to attack our identity in Jesus Christ and did that very thing when Jesus was fasting for 40 days and nights - He kept saying if you are the son of God as if it was a question/ or their was any doubt.
Galatians 3:28-- There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:4--But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Father, Son & Holy Spirit All listed at once in this scripture)
Romans 8:14-- because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:16-- The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Agreed, Woman.
It's that simple, isn't it? Yet some make it so complicated....
- Twenty One Daysposted 12 years ago
0- ah well, sometimes someone catches on...
- SirDentposted 12 years ago0
- "bird brain" !!! love that.
So twitter IS the devil. Tweet Tweet. Missy, stop quoting the bible to someone who understands in its original language. (geez) I can't even read it. It's so....quote the passages out of context to suit your point. The bible writers will reel in their graves with how you use the text!
Don't be afraid of me, I'm not going to make you doubt your faith anymore than you already do. You have to appreciate that the bible has many layers of truth and its highly possible you're not reaching it because you're afraid to doubt it. Doubt is the beginning of understanding. Go there...go to that dark spaces in your head and challenge the darkness.
Only then can you face Beelzedad...I mean, the demon Beelzebub. (the name is just so close) (and that's actually being generous giving him more credit than he deserves)Interesting. Nowhere on this thread have you or I engaged one another, yet from out of nowhere, you take at cheap shot at me personally.
Obviously, you are just calling me out with some childish playground tactic, only trolling with the motive to get me to stoop to that level of immaturity.
Terrible behavior.Let's just I kind of love the pun and couldn't help it. BUt my apologies, admittedly that was a cheap shot.
- brotheryochananposted 12 years ago0
So, are you really saying He is a respecter of persons? Wouldn't that make him partial? Indeed it would. From His point of view, all are saved, by his fulfillment of the Covenant. No if, and's or buts.
In no way can we apply the blood to make atonement. That is works according to the law, which is where the requirement of the Sacrifice came. Those sins are already forgiven, else all would perish. We ask forgiveness because of our lack of faith to resist our own desires. This is not to remind Him of our faults, nor His promise, but to assist in renewing the mind according to the knowledge of Creator, versus the repetitive knowing of Good and Evil [linear thinking]
do you really understand what Paul is saying here? In the heart you believe, that is your spirit. When you confess faults, your ears hear it -as to the ears of others- so your mind can be renewed and your own heart not quench the Spirit in you. By words we are justified and also destroyed. So, salvation continues in those who go beyond the sin.
As for Immanu El[Jesus] the meaning of calling on 'his name' is a remembrance of how he overcame and the sacrifice made. He cannot cause salvation in a person anymore than he could cause a person healed or a rich man to follow him or believe without seeing and touching his hands/feet/side. One must accept the gift of Grace without cool music, alter calls, bible hammering, fear, etc. They must be born of spirit to enter in.
Moreover, nowhere in the text does he ever -ever ever ever- say to pray to him. EVER. He does say pray to the Father who gives Life.
What seems to have happened: a man is being worshiped for his works instead of mankind worshiping the Father -whom they were commanded to in faith and love. This is why nearly 250MM followers pack church every Sunday, study the book to no end, yet have no faith, no boldness, no manifestation of the Spirits power in them. They are faking it because they're being taught to. He himself said after the resurrection: As I am (as you see me now, body, mind and spirit) so are you/should you be in this world.
The only thing believers are required to do is just tell people the good news -salvation has come!
Yup, we agree on this.
JamesAct 10: 34Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35But in every nation he that feareth(reverence/honor/obey) him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
36The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
37That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
39And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
40Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
41Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
42And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
43To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
44While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Take note verse 35 Those that fear Him are accepted. Not everyone fears/reverences/or honors God.
Verse 45-whosoever believeth in him(Jesus) shall receive remission of sins.= Salvation
requirement of the Sacrifice came--->The blood of Christ, the perfect sacrifice, had to be shed for our atonement. Jesus Christ "did not enter by means of the blood of the goats and calves; but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption." -Hebrews 9:12
Unlike the Levite priests who had to offer sacrifices again and again, Jesus Christ is the only high priest who is "holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens". Paul, the first Christian missionary, explained that "unlike other high priests, He does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when He offered Himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever." (Hebrews 7:26-28)
Are you going to post the whole tome here?
We can all read, thank you.Here we have a fine example of how a religionist's brain functions.
to jstf; the brainwashing remains inside, the sprit leaves the person well alone by Monday afternoon and the Hangover persists until next Sunday morning. I can show you a City, Nashville, full of that kind of Southern baptist behavior.
It happens over and over again in just about every house. Including possibly, I hope not, yours, as for me,
I do not drink, do not believe in putting that inside my body, was raised that way, and I do not Believe in Religion, but possibly in God as I study and wrestle with his exhistance. I have learned there is a great difference between Religon- or Church the building, and God!
But no hangover about it, sorry to disapoint your overly judgemental mind.
What I do have however is a mystified feeling watching you, sober up and return over and over again!
and yes Earnest, it is a finner example of indoctrination
the CIA could take lessons......lolol
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